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Sloping Acres Park

Sloping Acres Park from directly overhead

Sloping Acres Park is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 188 m. South Mountain stands 313 m to the north-northeast, 6.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Tame Buck Hill, a peak 0.6 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 22 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
City of Waterbury
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.55668, -72.98405
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Nature reserves
Parks
  • Fairlawn Playground: 1.1 mi
  • Scott Road Park: 1.5 mi
  • Berkeley Heights Playground: 1.8 mi
  • City Mills Playground: 2.3 mi
  • East Mountain Park: 2.3 mi
Historic sites
  • Carrie Welton Fountain: 2.9 mi
  • Clock-On-The-Green: 3.0 mi
  • Veterans Monument: 3.0 mi
  • Soldiers' Monument: 3.1 mi
  • Father McGivney Monument: 3.2 mi
Museums
Gardens
  • Sustainable Garden: 4.5 mi
  • Japanese Garden: 4.5 mi
  • Earthkind Rose Trial Garden: 4.5 mi
  • Biblical Garden: 4.6 mi
  • Poet's Circle: 4.6 mi
Waterfalls: 60
  • Cascade: 5.5 mi
  • Roaring Brook Falls: 5.5 mi
  • Cascade: 5.7 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 6.2 mi
  • Cascades: 6.6 mi
Artworks: 55
  • Maori Head: 2.6 mi
  • Greetings from Waterbury: 3.1 mi
  • Ben Franklin: 3.1 mi
  • Whale Sculpture: 3.1 mi
  • Home: 12.9 mi
Attractions: 53
  • Libby's Lump: 5.5 mi
  • Rock House: 7.8 mi
  • Tory's Den: 11.2 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 11.3 mi
  • Millstone: 11.6 mi
Beaches: 42
Cliffs: 23
  • Whitestone Cliffs: 5.8 mi
  • Satan's Dog Bowl: 8.1 mi
  • Ravens Roost: 11.1 mi
  • Petro Cliffs: 11.2 mi
  • Bethel Rock: 11.3 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Picnic Grove: 6.1 mi
  • Pond View: 21.1 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 21.2 mi
  • Oak Grove: 21.5 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 21.8 mi
Rest areas: 5
  • Southington Rest Area: 4.2 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 12.5 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 12.5 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 19.4 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 19.4 mi
Springs: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.7 miles of Sloping Acres Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
South MountainNNE 17°313 m6.6 mi
Lindsley HillNNE 12°312 m4.7 mi
Clinton HillNNW 343°303 m4.4 mi
West PeakE 87°301 m7.3 mi
Becar HillN 357°297 m4.4 mi
Pine HillNNW 335°295 m8.2 mi
Great HillWSW 259°292 m8.0 mi
Compounce MountainNNE 24°290 m5.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2819:04
June solstice05:1919:4820:30
September equinox06:4018:1418:51
December solstice07:1615:4116:26

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038495968737265534233
Precip in3.12.94.04.13.54.13.43.54.34.53.44.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Meriden Markham Muni AP, 9 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • common mugwort9 obs
  • Asian bittersweet8 obs
  • Canada mayflower7 obs
  • garlic mustard6 obs
  • staghorn sumac6 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly6 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle5 obs
  • american witch-hazel5 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/43440823

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